I scored it 116-110 Oscar in a one sided beating. You?
Noway in hell Oscar lost that fight
I cant remember how I scored it but have always said that people need to shut their mouth when talking about how Sweat Pea got jobbed in that fight.
Like you said King there is no way Oscar lost that fight...it has become a ****ing fad to refer to his victory over Whitaker as "controversial"...bull**** it was pretty ****ing clear to me!
Pernell Whitaker was a clever, crafty boxer, but I found his style to be frustrating to watch, rather ugly in fact. He used his right shoulder, did a bit of pushing and clinched at just the right times to avoid getting hit with a clean shot. His style was based mostly on frustrating a clean, classical boxer such as De La Hoya or Julio Cesar Chavez. Whitaker was a cutie rather than a warrior, and though successful, was a negative fighter. He almost never fought on the inside, and few if any of his fights could be called great. He used the tools that he had to win fights, but for fans like me he was a failure as an entertainer and I usually rooted against him.
That being said, I suppose that I would go with the judges in awarding De La Hoya the victory by a small margin, around 3 or 4 points or so. Maybe I'm biased but it's hard not to be in such a matchup. I know that compubox had Whitaker landing a few more punches, but not the big ones.
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Pernell Whitaker was a clever, crafty boxer, but I found his style to be frustrating to watch, rather ugly in fact. He used his right shoulder, did a bit of pushing and clinched at just the right times to avoid getting hit with a clean shot. His style was based mostly on frustrating a clean, classical boxer such as De La Hoya or Julio Cesar Chavez. Whitaker was a cutie rather than a warrior, and though successful, was a negative fighter. He almost never fought on the inside, and few if any of his fights could be called great. He used the tools that he had to win fights, but for fans like me he was a failure as an entertainer and I usually rooted against him.
That being said, I suppose that I would go with the judges in awarding De La Hoya the victory by a small margin, around 3 or 4 points or so. Maybe I'm biased but it's hard not to be in such a matchup. I know that compubox had Whitaker landing a few more punches, but not the big ones.
You've obviously never really watched his fights Pernell was one one the craftiest and skilled boxers in history he would get so low on boxers they couldn't hit him.Then he counter punch with some of the fastest punches you've ever seen.If you wanna see a fight of his that was impressive watch Whitaker vs Hurtado or Whitaker vs Chavez.
i dont exactly remember the scorecard but i think i scored it for sweet pea. sweet pea was robbed in that fight imo.
If you want to say that Pernell won...I guess thats fine but when you go a step farther and call the fight a robbery your off base...a robbery should be saved for what happened to Sweat Pea against JC Superstar...overusing the term like you have done is wrong, right?
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